Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1887-02-17

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moMrAmA mews.
The Boseman Chronicle has entered upon
its fifth volume.
The Pol,cs Gazette publishes good pic
ture of X. Beidler.
The Anaconda mine and smclter has shut
down for the present.
The council members were drowned out
by u leaking roof ON the fifth inst.
At Fort Assinnaboinc on the night Of the
Bird inst, the temperature was SO below
zero.
| Frank Jones, AN engineer ON the North.
ern Pacific was killed near Garrison last
week.
the west were six days behind up to the
9Th inst, ON account Of heavy drifts in the
MulIan Pass.
IL il reported that Gov. Hauscr has pur-
chased mine lying about five miles west
oi wickes high up on the range. The price
paid was $35, 200.
The many friends Of Hon. =. X. Arm.
strong are making every effort possible To
secure his appointment to the associate
judgeship Of this district.--Chronicle.
Billings wants territorial prison, and
Councilman Waters has introduced u bill
providing for its ere :tiOn, maintenance and
disposition of the labor of its inmates.
The Northern Pacific board Of directors
will loan all the farmers who need It, west
of the Missouri river in Dakota, grain
enough for planting, to be paid for in the
fall.
riic supreme court Of the territory has
decided that the charter granted to Wool
ston by the city council Of Helena to con.
struct system of water works for that
city, In Illegal.
Gov. Hauser has made the following APP.
pointments: Superintendent of Public In
struction. \. &. Logan. of Miles City; Audi
tor, ex-Mayor Sullivan; treasurer, W. O..
Preuitt, both Of Helena.
The cowboys, working for the Shonkin
Cattle Association, were ordered to return
home. as it is impossible to ride over the
range amy longer. Cattle must be left to
their fate. Many are dying.
The streets and stores in Billings are
lighted with SO electric lamps, and all are
supplied with water from the Yellowsto one
river by the new works which can pump
/ ,OOO, 900 gallons a day.
Citizens of Butte in mass meeting are dis
GUESSING the pending legislation ON variety
theatres. Popular sentiment is aroused
and the voice Of the masses is heard on the
side Of order and morality.
Granite Mountain stock il still climbing.
The latest quotation in st. Louis is SIS
per share and the end In not yet The par
value of the shares 10 $25. At the present
quotation the market value Of the prop
crty is $26, ,OOO,OOO.
Helena experienced a disastrous fire on
the night Of the first inst. The Interna-
tional hotel, II. Lobdel & Co.'s dry goods
store, Charles Lehman's Main and Bridge
streets store, and Dewitt & Arnold's meat
market were destroyed. Loss $50, 900;
partially insured.
| A man had his hand badly frozen the
other day. An acquaintance accosted him
with a remark about the weather and he
pulled on his glove to tap his chestnut
gong. The frost Immediately seized upon
his cuticle. That's how cold il has been
in lIelena.-IIerald.
II is said that On the first Of July next
! the Utah & Northern will widen it's ga,,g,
| from Pocatello to Silver Bow. IL will b.
done in twelve hours after all preparations
are made. This will give broad gauge
connection from all Union Pacific points
north Of Pocatello to all eastern points
The Hon. Frank l.. Wor,len, of Missoula,
one III the best citizens Of the territory Oi
Montana, died on the 9Th inst, after u
brief illness. Mr.. Worden was one Of thu
leading citizens Of the territory, always
public enterprise.
Ten of the Fiathead Indians have been
equipped with new six shooters and Win.
chester rifles. These worthless are to do
are also being constructed by the Jesuit
missionaries at st. Ignatius, Missoula
county, two jails, one for n,al.s and the
other for iemaier.-Ex.
1 Hon. W. d. Webb. secretary Of the terri.
tory, who was directed by the Law appro-
pristing $500 for the relief of the Cree In.
dians, on sun river, to appoint some per-
son or persons to dirburse il. has selected
for that purlose Phil A. Manix and Sam
uel Ford, of Augusta, and the money has
been forwarded them for disbursement.
sheriff Irvine has been advised by Agen,
Blake that IL will he better to wait until
the snow goes of before attempting to ap
prehend the nine Crow Indians who srs
wanted to complete the number for whom
he holds warrants. The agent informs hin
that the snow and the general condition %
the country at this time would render i
an impossibility To catch all the In'iiau'